Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]

[Tim McNamara]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

> For me, this situation is awkward, impeding and dissatisfactory.  For
> others, it is reason to go away.  I don't see that anything is gained
> for chastising me for my impression.  That is merely shooting the
> messenger.  Actually, more than the messenger.

This sort of thing is very common in open source projects IME,  
basically "if you can't supply the solution, then you don't have a  
right to complain about it."  I see less of this attitude on the  
LilyPond user list, at least, than in most other open source projects  
I've dealt with (e.g., some of the Emacs Gnus folks can be right  
***holes).  There's usually just one or two who spout a 'tude like  
this here and even that's pretty infrequent.